• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

On this day.......

Mike G

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How about we post a photo of what we were doing X number of years ago on the date of posting.

I'll start with 2 years ago (27th May):

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5 years ago:

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8 years ago:

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9 years ago:

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That view from 8 years ago was from almost exactly where I am sitting now, but looking the other way.
 
OK. 27 May 2017. Starting to get the roof on. And yes we really did wear hard hats (and still do) - that is Mrs AJB T who helped getting all the roof timbers up there. This building took months to make - all done in situ.

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Correction, the deck is not P.T but a composite material left over from a large deck I built for them at their other farm house.
 
Interesting 'photos Mike. I can't contribute as I think I was most likely on the golf course. :)
 
4 years ago on 27th I was finishing this box.

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28th more finished.

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Other photographs from this day over the years reveal that I was in Bruges, Brussels, Sweden or at an early cricket match. Or sitting in the garden in the Borders. I will spare you those.
 
Excellent! I like the curved line of the dovetails.....and I like the way you achieved it without hollowing the entire piece. I can see a complication in lining everything up perfectly for marking, and I'm wondering if you maybe even cut the pins first.
 
Mike G said:
Excellent! I like the curved line of the dovetails.....and I like the way you achieved it without hollowing the entire piece. I can see a complication in lining everything up perfectly for marking, and I'm wondering if you maybe even cut the pins first.
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How kind of you to say so. Pins second as far as I recall. And with the insouciance born of ignorance lining it up didn’t appear to cause any problems.

It finally finished up looking like this.


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Present for my partner. Seemed to go OK. And first prize in the village show. (Village about 200 people, although you are allowed to enter within a 10 mile radius). So I’m not bragging too much, I hope.
 
Tiresias said:
That's nice.

Machined or hand tooled ? (I wouldn't know where to start with the latter; or indeed the former)
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Hand tools. I wouldn't have known where to start either, but learned how to make them when I spent a few months at Edward Barnsley.
 
30 May 2022 I tried my hand at turning an oak bowl which I set on fire, sanded smooth and filled the grain with silver Hampshire Sheen. Oh and I tried a resin inlay around the rim. The oak was from a friends blacksmith shop and had spent 20 years supporting a 20 Ton power hammer, it was like turning metal.20220527_202439.jpg20220527_202455.jpg
 
Mr P said:
Everybody remembering what they made or did years ago, and here's little old me, can't remember what I did last week 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Well, I guess most people keep their photos in some sort of date-ordered "album". I can't remember anything about what I was doing X-months or years ago.....but I can easily just click on a dated folder and find out. For instance, 13 years ago today I was camping in Zambia:

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I wouldn't have a hope in hell of remembering that unaided.
 
AndyP said:
Please tell us more about the technique used when “setting on fire”
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Plain old ignorance and a blow torch, what i did discover using this technique is that,
The bowl walls need to be thicker
You cannot hold the blowtorch in one part for too long or it cracks
Open a window or door and make sure you sweep up.

I have done a couple of pens like this and the effect is quite good on them
 
This is an oak fountain pen, the oak is from a section of a Rennie MacIntosh chair that was almost destroyed in the 2018 fire at the Glasgow School of Art. The pen was turned as usual then i blowtorched it whilst still on the lathe, sanded back and a coat of silver Hampshire Sheen embelishing wax which filled the grain and highlighted it. The pen was a gift for a friend that had studied there and was blackened as a reminder of the fire.

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Well that’s something I definitely do - a lot! The thing is with my photo collection it’s nearly all things with the odd clump of people at an event. Interspersed. And the things are really random, some might say strange and boring. Like this picture of the A 18 closed for a load travelling at 10mph the other day. It just happened to be passing as I crossed over.

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Alasdair said:
Plain old ignorance and a blow torch, what i did discover using this technique is that,
The bowl walls need to be thicker
You cannot hold the blowtorch in one part for too long or it cracks
Open a window or door and make sure you sweep up.

I have done a couple of pens like this and the effect is quite good on them
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I’d love to try. Not sure i would have the courage to use a blowtorch inside the workshop though.
 
...and in 2022 I was photographing a factory where they make pre-wired electrical installations for new houses working from architect's plans The whole installation pre-wired and tested and delivered in a big box, only needs to be fitted to the walls by semi-skilled labour.

Not much woodwork I'm afraid.
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June 17,2023 . Interlock paving rebuild leading to mud room. Previous landscaper?, had the upper landing too high as it covered the concrete stoop . As you can imagine rot set into the bottoms of exterior stud walls. Needed to be lowered 6". Repaired all the rot and relayed the interlock.1000000964.jpg1000000969.jpg1000000968.jpg
 
duke said:
June 17,2023 . Interlock paving rebuild leading to mud room. Previous landscaper?, had the upper landing too high as it covered the concrete stoop . As you can imagine rot set into the bottoms of exterior stud walls. Needed to be lowered 6". Repaired all the rot and relayed the interlock.
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"Interlock" isn't a building term I'm familiar with. (It's something my wife does on her sewing machine :) ). Could you describe what you were doing, and we'll see if we can work out what we call it on this side of the pond.
 
Kind of a generic term like kleenex for tissues. Concrete paving stones first made by Interlock company, so I always refer to the product as interlock. Really just precast concrete these happen to be rectangular.
 
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